The M23 rebel group supported by Rwanda has said he wanted to advise on Congolese capital Kinshasa. International press agencies report this on Thursday evening. The city is more than 1,500 kilometers from the metropolis of Goma in the east of the country, which was conquered by the rebels this week.
“We stay in Goma, and continue to Kinshasa,” said Corneille Nangaa, one of the political leaders of M23, during a press conference on Thursday. “If they ask us to withdraw, then my answer is: what should we withdraw to? We are not going anywhere. ”
The United Nations already expressed their concern about the rise of the rebels towards the south on Thursday. In the meantime they would approach the city of Bukavu, about two hundred kilometers south of Goma. According to the Reuters fighting, the Congolese army is taking place in that region. Monusco, the UN peace force in Congo, says there are also reports that Rwandan troops “in that direction [van Bukavu]”Cross the border, according to a spokesperson.
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Massively employed
Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi called on young people on Wednesday to work en masse, so that he can use them for the fight against M23, the Tutsi rebel group called Mouvement du 23 Mars. The president promised “a powerful and coordinated response” to reduce the rebels.
It was the first time that Tshisekedi has publicly spoke since Goma’s intake. On Thursday he had a meeting with the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot, who had traveled in an attempt to mediate in the battle in the northeast of the country.
International ‘Silence’
Tshisekedi lashed out at the international community. According to him, he keeps aloof in the conflict. The international ‘silence’ towards the Rwandan ‘barbarism’, he called an ‘insult’ for Congo in his television speech on Wednesday evening.
AFP news agency reports after an inventory that at least one hundred deaths and almost a thousand were injured in the fighting in recent days. The humanitarian situation in the country seems to be more and more deteriorating. According to the UN, more than half a million people have been displaced since the beginning of January.
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